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President Biden Meets With CEOs And Remarks On The Economy
President Joe Biden reads a note from an aide during a meeting on July 28 in WashingtonAnna Moneymaker / Getty Images, file

On several fronts, Biden has reason to celebrate this week’s wins

If it seems like the jobs report was the capstone on a pretty great week for the Democratic president, it’s not your imagination.

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After amazing job numbers were released this morning, President Joe Biden seemed understandably eager to take a victory lap. The White House issued this written statement after the public saw the heartening data:

“Today, the unemployment rate matches the lowest it’s been in more than 50 years: 3.5%. More people are working than at any point in American history. That’s millions of families with the dignity and peace of mind that a paycheck provides. And, it’s the result of my economic plan to build the economy from the bottom up and middle out. I ran for president to rebuild the middle class — there’s more work to do, but today’s jobs report shows we are making significant progress for working families.”

If it seems like this is the capstone on a pretty great week for the Democratic president, it’s not your imagination. Consider the developments from the last several days:

Not bad for a seven-day stretch.

To be sure, Biden isn’t winning any popularity contests right now. It’s tough for any White House to be too pleased when the president’s approval rating is below 40 percent.

What’s more, whether these successes are reaching the public — in early August, which is a tough time to get people’s attention — is unclear.

But as a substantive matter, there’s no denying the fact that Biden and his allies have put together a string of important wins after much of the political world assumed that the president and his party were stuck in the mud.